Columbia University New York, N.Y. 10027 Office of Public Information (212) 854-5573
The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) announced today that it is launching its World Wide Web site and making available the 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning articles, photos, political cartoons and music on its site at http://www.cjr.org/ or directly to the Pulitzer site at http://www.pulitzer.org/.
"As an alternative to the clutter and commercialism on the Internet and in keeping with our mission of defining standards for our profession, we are offering examples of the world's best journalistic work to the general public. The full text of the articles, vivid color news photographs, audio samples of the music and in-depth information about the winners, the history of the prizes and the judging process are all included," said Suzanne Braun Levine, editor of CJR. "We are delighted that the Pulitzer Board and the winners have supported this effort so whole-heartedly."
Seymour Topping, administrator of The Pulitzer Prizes, said, "Since the Prizes were first given 79 years ago, all of the actual winning work has been available only to a handful of scholars and writers who were willing to come to Columbia to view the Pulitzer archive. Now everyone with access to the World Wide Web will be able to appreciate for themselves the quality of America's best efforts in journalism. We hope that the web site will become a continuing electronic archive for Pulitzer awards and information."
CJR, the nation's oldest media monitor founded in 1961, plans to continue developing its home page in the next few months to include adaptations of some of its existing editorial content, including the popular "darts and laurels" section, and to add other new features that will expand its role as the forum for discussion of journalistic issues.
The Center for New Media
The CJR home page represents the first major production of the Center for New Media, a working laboratory for journalists, filmmakers, engineers, educators and publishers to develop new forms of storytelling and multimedia products. The University is renovating its Journalism building to accommodate the Center, which will serve as a state-of-the-art digital facility.
Joan Konner, dean of the school and publisher of CJR, said, "The new service is a demonstration of convergence in two important ways: new media and high quality journalism; and the tradition of excellence in the school and its commitment to the future of journalism."
Recent Columbia journalism graduates Trisha Smith and Hilary MacGregor, who specialized in new media, and Andrew Lih, a 1994 Columbia graduate in computer science and engineering, have been working on the site for six weeks under the University's recently formed Center for New Media housed at the Graduate School of Journalism.
"Columbia University and the School of Journalism are committed to remaining at the forefront of the transformation of newsrooms into multimedia content centers and developing new media products," said Stephen D. Isaacs, associate dean for academic affairs.
Columbia has established the Center for New Media to pioneer newsgathering and multimedia production techniques as well as to focus the University's efforts in multimedia. The Pulitzer Prizes are made annually in 14 categories of journalism, and to authors in history, biography, fiction, non-fiction and poetry; and in music and drama.
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